I’m a Hoarding Alliance.

I am not like some that hoard their 1st drop, or T1 gear (not that I ever got that), or collect pets (I do have my 1st mount and 1st non-combat pet etc).

No, that isn’t the sort of hoarding that is starting to bug me. I have enchanting mats, quest items, quests and “maybe-one-day gear”.

Enchanting Mats.
I don’t know why I hoard these.

For the alt I want to power level in enchanting – not likely

For the level 25 alt that need an enchant – I could just farm the AH.

I have high level stuff too of course, but my gear isn’t changing fast enough, I haven’t made spellcloth in ages (I could, I just never get around to it). Maybe I should just clear it all out.
What do you think?

Quest Items.
Encrypted Twilight texts, feathers, bombs etc. I just never seem to accept I wont go back and get one or two more for the hand in. I never quite get around to doing the quest, or I drop the quest and forget what the item was for… then I am too scared to dump it.

Quests.
I am sitting on 25/25 quests at the moment. Quite a few of them are mid-60 group quests that i always wanted to experience – there is really no other value in them.

Others are level 70 quests that just require 1 or 2 voyages into heroic instances, or certain boss drops. I have the trial of Naaru quests – not sure why.

I have 1/2 completed dailies – I don’t want to drop them – They are 1/2 done! But I never get the time to finish them off.

I have PvP dailies, 1 AV and 2 World PvP. But they either take time I don’t have, or are reliant on things not being owned by Alliance, or enough Alliance around to do them… and the wait & wipes are frustrating.

Do I just drop the quests and start over with a clean slate? I really can’t be bothered tracking down the quest givers to get them again…

“Maybe-one-day gear”.
This is the gear I am hoarding for that day I get a new drop and need to change things around. Either they were superseded, or were never quite up to scratch, or (don’t read this bit Zupa) are for the dim dark day I respec Frost.

I have resistance gear, because I am bound to step into Molten Core at some point…. right?

The gear I find hardest to drop is the quest reward gear. The other stuff, worst case I have to run and instance again (and again), praying for a drop. But I can never get the quest rewards again. I don’t care if it’s level 60… I can’t get it back once I DE it.

I can’t say I am overly sentimental, it’s just I hate that sinking feeling when I DE something. Vendor and item and you have until you logout (or sell too much) to change your mind and beg it back from the shopkeeper. De it, and it’s gone. No second chances… I panic every time.

I think this week I am going to build a list of things I that:

I really want to keep.

I really want to do.

Get rid of the rest.

I am going to beg and plead with my mates to help me clear my quest log (it never works, but there is still a greater chance of them helping me than finding a pug in LFG for a group quest… how many hours have I spent in LFG for group quests…

Actually, I don’t think I am playing this week. It’s my son’s 2nd birthday, so I have 2 weeks to chicken out and live with a full bank.

After all, if I DE all the gear, I am just going to have more enchanting mats, then I will have to make some more decisions.

and you need to create and account at that site and upload each time you want the data updated.

Features include:
Character profile (similar to character sheet)
Inventory – all of it, bank, bags and mail – sortable.
Equipment – weapons and armour by slot – detailed
Bank – Shows bank bags and contents
Bags – Shows bags and contents
Mail – what, from who and when it expires
Quest log – you have already seen that
Recipes – all known receipes, by profession, filterable.

In addition, let’s say you want to make a netherweave bag, when you drill down to the recipe, it will show you which of your toons have the mats required.

I’m usually pretty good about what I hoard and what I don’t. My pitfall currently seems to be roleplaying outfits for a number of my more popular girls. A girl can’t wear the same thing day after day, can she?

And my recent excursions into the Core leave me able to say that the Fire Resist isn’t required in post-60. I’ve been furiously working towards finally acquiring a Benediction before Wrath of the Lich King (four priests to 60 or beyond and not a single one!) so I’ve been in there with some regularity lately. And successfully healing a heroic in almost full Tier 1 makes me giggle.

I have this problem … I really do. I have more stuff than I care think about what to do with. Oh wait, had. I had more stuff ….

I started doing one toon a week, starting with the bank toons. It go listed on the AH, or vendored, or just flat deleted.

Then I got to my raiding toons. It was easy to dump off mats and cloth and just stuff … But my hunter T4 set? I had to come back to it. I am never going to wear it again, his T5 is much neater looking, but still …

I won’t even get started on our community guild bank in the alt guild I have created with my friends .. you think one person comes up with a lot of junk … imagine 6 of us living out of the same bank.

Basically we have come to the conclusion that all of this stuff is going to truely be useless at expansion time, so the only sensible thing to do it to concert it into gold … doesn’t make it any easier tho.

Tell you son Happy 2nd Birthday from those of us in the eletronic world btw. :o)

Sell -ALL- your enchanting mats. If you need mats you buy them from AH at (hopefully) a good price. If you sell them for a good price then there is no reason to have them taking up shelf space. Carrying stock costs money ;)

Quest items: find out which ones are for important quests which are part of a chain. Throw all the others out. You can always get the quest again and continue if you find that you want to do that quest… for example: the trials of the naaru. You want to do these quests in order to get “champion of the naaru” after your name, so dont throw out any quest items for these quests.

Acutal quests – spend some time trying to finish quests and not pick up any new quests. you will probably find you make some money and along the way you will see which quests aren’t worth keeping. Dailys aren’t important of course and can be safely ditched straight away. I try to do them on the day I get them otherwise drop them.

This doesn’t apply to PvP and Dungeon/Heroic dailys if they are for a BG or an instance you are likely to run, enjoy, complete and / or win. Hang onto them as you will likely do the task required soon enough anyway, might as well get free gold and honor and rep for it :)

Maybe-one-day gear: no no no. Probably the hardest to get rid of, but least likely to get used. If you do change spec and want to try new gear, by that stage the chances are you will have something else which is just as good. At worst not having that piece of gear in the future will mean a very minor nerf under some specific circumstances. You wont likely miss it when it’s gone.

Of course I do none of these things, and I have a full bank, bag, mule and mailbox. I just juggle rather than face reality and get rid of stuff. For example I have 20 primal nethers. Why? Because I just have them, and might need them one day…. you know, for an enchant or something….

I still have my priest’s T2 headpiece because:
1) It looks awesome even now.
2) Extreme emotional attachment. I spent three times the maximum amount of DKP (way back when we used DKP) ever spent in my guild for it. It also never dropped again (yay for token drops), so I was the priest with the cool and guild-unique hat until The Burning Crusade. I still occasionally wear it in the bank until one of my fellow healing priests standing beside me notices and tosses me a quick: “I hate you.”